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The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary : Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century / Matthew Rampley, Nóra Veszprémi, Markian Prokopovych.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (300 p.) : 47 illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271089065
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 708.00943609/034 23
LOC classification:
  • N1610
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Museums and Cultural Politics in the Habsburg World -- Chapter 1 The Museological Landscape of Austria- Hungary -- Chapter 2 The Museum and the City Art, Municipal Programs, and Urban Agendas -- Chapter 3 Visions in Stone Museums and Their Architecture -- Chapter 4 Curators, Conservators, Scholars -- Chapter 5 “Uniques” and Stories Principles and Practices of Display -- Chapter 6 Museums and Their Publics Visitors, Societies, and the Press Chapter -- Epilogue Modernity and Regime’s End -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This important critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary explores their place in the wider history of European museums and collecting, their role as public institutions, and their involvement in the complex cultural politics of the Habsburg Empire.Focusing on institutions in Vienna, Cracow, Prague, Zagreb, and Budapest, The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary traces the evolution of museum culture over the long nineteenth century, from the 1784 installation of imperial art collections in the Belvedere Palace (as a gallery open to the public) to the dissolution of Austria-Hungary after the First World War. Drawing on source materials from across the empire, the authors reveal how the rise of museums and display was connected to growing tensions between the efforts of Viennese authorities to promote a cosmopolitan and multinational social, political, and cultural identity, on the one hand, and, on the other, the rights of national groups and cultures to self-expression. They demonstrate the ways in which museum collecting policies, practices of display, and architecture engaged with these political agendas and how museums reflected and enabled shifting forms of civic identity, emerging forms of professional practice, the production of knowledge, and the changing composition of the public sphere.Original in its approach and sweeping in scope, this fascinating study of the museum age of Austria-Hungary will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in the cultural and art history of Central Europe.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Museums and Cultural Politics in the Habsburg World -- Chapter 1 The Museological Landscape of Austria- Hungary -- Chapter 2 The Museum and the City Art, Municipal Programs, and Urban Agendas -- Chapter 3 Visions in Stone Museums and Their Architecture -- Chapter 4 Curators, Conservators, Scholars -- Chapter 5 “Uniques” and Stories Principles and Practices of Display -- Chapter 6 Museums and Their Publics Visitors, Societies, and the Press Chapter -- Epilogue Modernity and Regime’s End -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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This important critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary explores their place in the wider history of European museums and collecting, their role as public institutions, and their involvement in the complex cultural politics of the Habsburg Empire.Focusing on institutions in Vienna, Cracow, Prague, Zagreb, and Budapest, The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary traces the evolution of museum culture over the long nineteenth century, from the 1784 installation of imperial art collections in the Belvedere Palace (as a gallery open to the public) to the dissolution of Austria-Hungary after the First World War. Drawing on source materials from across the empire, the authors reveal how the rise of museums and display was connected to growing tensions between the efforts of Viennese authorities to promote a cosmopolitan and multinational social, political, and cultural identity, on the one hand, and, on the other, the rights of national groups and cultures to self-expression. They demonstrate the ways in which museum collecting policies, practices of display, and architecture engaged with these political agendas and how museums reflected and enabled shifting forms of civic identity, emerging forms of professional practice, the production of knowledge, and the changing composition of the public sphere.Original in its approach and sweeping in scope, this fascinating study of the museum age of Austria-Hungary will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in the cultural and art history of Central Europe.

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In English.

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